The International Sybase User Group has announced that it will publish the ISUG Technical Journal as a monthly publication from January 2010. As ISUG's core outreach vehicle to its membership base, its readers have consistently voted the magazine as a key membership benefit time and time again.
Each month, ISUG will release an increasingly vibrant and date-sensitive electronic version of ISUG Technical Journal and this will be available to members online. Subsequent to the online content, at the end of each quarter the best of the news, features and tutorials that the magazine is so well known for will be compiled into a print version that will be mailed to members with Gold benefits
"We're definitely excited to be moving to a monthly schedule," says Mike Harrold, executive director for ISUG. "We strongly believe that we will be able to deliver more timely information this way and that our members will be pleased to receive a regular feed of punctual and hard-hitting technical information."
As a respected user magazine with a discerning and demanding readership, ISUG Technical Journal seeks to present a variety of material that has both corporate industry relevance and yet is routed in practical issues faced by users of Sybase products on a day-to-day basis. ISUG's unique proximity to Sybase matched with the organization's independent status gives it the opportunity to share an informed voice balanced with objective third-party judgment-something its members have long recognized.
"The costs to print and mail the ISUG Technical Journal have continued to increase on a yearly basis far above the anticipated increases," notes Bryan Enochs, ISUG president, addressing one of the underlying needs for the change. "After a great deal of analysis and discussion, the board agreed that reducing the printed copies while not decreasing the amount of published content was the best way to move forward."
The first issue of 2010 is expected to be available January 4. For more information about ISUG, go here.